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If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"
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When he had entered into the house from the multitude, his talmidim asked him about the parable.
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He said to them, "Are you so without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,
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because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his belly, and into the latrine, thus making all foods clean?"
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He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
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For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
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covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
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All these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man."
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From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tzor and Tzidon. He entered into a house, and wanted no one to know it, but he couldn't escape detection.
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For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
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Now the woman was a Yevanit, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.